In Bennett's concept of the American crime rate, of course, genocide never counts. Neither does theft of labor. With these two great and obvious categories of crime dismissed, the souls of white folk may then be quite easily imagined to have worked their way to Democracy in America by means of honest trade, fair elections, and saintly patience, never bothering no one, and only occasionally dismayed by inappropriate displays of ingratitude.
The logic of the club is how W. E. B. Du Bois once punned it. And everywhere one looks, that logic holds like double epoxy. Of course, the USA Senate is the ultimate club in both senses of the term, with its predictable traditions of genocide, labor theft, war, and today's nominee as Supreme Court Chief Justice who need not even bother to produce his work product as understudy to a civil rights bashing attorney general.
Or how about those grand juries? About half of white America is cheering the Travis County Grand Jury for yesterday's indictment of the House Majority Leader. But where was anybody last month when that same Grand Jury no-billed a white police officer who shot an unarmed Latino in the back? That killing wasn't even considered a tiny bit criminal. And that story barely made state news. But politicians taking money from Sears? My god, that sounds like a felony for sure.
